It wasn’t the prettiest win of the season. It took ten innings - and a 2020 rule change - to do it. But in the end, the Phillies came away with a 6-5 victory over the Nationals that capped off a four-game sweep of the 2019 World Series champions.
And since we won’t see the Nats again for a couple of weeks, let’s take one more look at this classic tweet:
As they often do, the Phillies jumped off to an early lead when Nationals’ third baseman Brock Holt couldn’t handle a hard-hit ball off the bat of Didi Gregorius.